David Hamilton. His background is chemistry and has he written several books on the mind-body connection and the science behind it. It is very well researched. One of Hamilton’s chapters discusses consciousness

Rupert Sheldrake in ‘A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance’ states that “The morphogenetic fields of all past systems become present to any subsequent similar system: the structures of past systems affect subsequent similar systems by a cumulative effect which acts across both time and space.” He qualifies his thesis by stating that this morphic resonance, for the sake of simplicity, takes place only from the past, and then uses his thesis to explain a large number of problems otherwise unanswered by current beliefs in the biological sciences, such as memory and the inheritance of form and inheritance. He proposed that various perceived phenomena, particularly biological ones, become more probable the more often they occur and that biological growth and behaviour thus becomes guided into patterns laid down by previous similar events. As a result, newly-acquired behaviours can be passed down the generations. It is a biological proposition akin to the Lamarckian inheritance theory.

Anton Zeilinger in ‘The Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation’ and other works describes how he teleported a photon from one side of the Danube river 600 meters to the other side instantly, not limited by light speed via a process of quantum entanglement and over 143 kilometres between the Canary Islands. These experiments were inspired by John Bell’s inequality theorem which shows that instant connections over distance are possible mathematically.

Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle states that all life, at every scale of organization – from single cells to the human brain, with its billions of neurons – is driven by the same universal imperative, which can be reduced to a mathematical function. It shows how the brain operates in a self-organisational way to counter the dispersive action of entropy (the measurement of degree of randomness – the increase in the disorganization within a system.). Such a principle is necessary if we are to achieve an explanation for the way in which rational thought and memory bring about order, an essential component of consciousness. According to The Second law of Thermodynamics the universe tends toward entropy, toward dissolution; but living things resist it. We wake up every morning nearly the same person that we were the day before, with clear separations between our cells and organs, and between us and the world without. To be alive, Friston says, is ‘to act in ways that reduce the gulf between your expectations and your sensory inputs’.

It incorporates a mechanism whereby the components of the brain act in such a way that reality, or the true state of a particular phenomenon under consideration in nature, is capable of being very precisely duplicated in holographic form by the brain. These holographic Images are created from interference patterns created by the firings and motions of connections between synapses, neurons, dendrites and any other elements of the brain’s cognitive abilities. How, and why these images are created to be near perfect replicas of reality, and not necessarily in just external representation, depends on a conjectured application of quantum entanglement. It is the groundwork for a new approach to understanding spiritual and mystical experiences

Karl Pribram has conducted research into the functions of the brain’s limbic system, frontal lobes, temporal lobes, and their roles in decision making and emotion. His theory of memory and perception is the subject of numerous popular books, including Michael Talbot’s The Holographic Universe